Judge (Full Art)

What moves the price of this card

The Judge (Full Art) on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM - Lost Thunder, and it trades at $65.40£49.22€57.60 in near mint condition. Only one printing of this card was produced, so there is no cheaper version to confuse it with.

Graded, it runs PSA 8 $16.58£12.48€14.60, PSA 9 $42.30£31.84€37.25, CGC/BGS 9.5 $47£35.37€41.39, PSA 10 $181.25£136.42€159.62. PSA has graded 206 copies of it. 217 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Judge (Full Art) worth?

A PSA 10 Judge (Full Art) from SM - Lost Thunder sells for $181.25. 38.5% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.

Is Judge (Full Art) from SM - Lost Thunder worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $91.89 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $48.50 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $56.60.

Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $181.25£136.42€159.62. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.